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kezzamachine
Posted: Thursday, March 25, 2021 2:13:46 PM
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Location: Lower the Hutt, New Zealand
Kia Ora tātou,

If you've been playing along at home, you'll note a conspicuous absence of Kiwi-ness in the wider SWM Community. While it can be blamed partially on *that thing that's going around* ...bloody COVID-19... some of that absence can be placed squarely on my shoulders. Let me elucidate!

Yeah, yeah, when COVID hit and NZ went into Lockdown, it changed some of the landscape of social interaction and it meant that some our ideas and dreams of the 12020 SWM season were delayed. The planned Nationals which were to happen in the middle of the year were moved to the end and all of the events that were leading up to it were dropped.

SWM in NZ, for better or for worse, rises and falls on my state of mind at any given point. Any system that is tied to one individual is probably not so good, so when I stopped organising things, official Save11 business ground to a halt. At large, NZ SWM didn't really seem to notice. Those of us who were busy on BlooMilk remained so, my high-school group of about 10+ students kept playing at school (when we came out of lockdown), and a large number of our wider group Nationally had already begun to move on to other games (Flesh and Blood, anyone?).

I got busy and when I get busy things on the outside of my thinking disappear into the nether. At the start of 12020 I was doing a lot of music (therocklords.bandcamp.com!) and when Lockdown hit, I decided to spend that time finishing my second Novel. By the end of 12020 I had finished it, printed it, and many people had started reading it. During this time, I focused on little else!

Then my latest project hit and ALL else, including my SWM, my music, and my third novel fell away into nothingness...

What was that project, I pretend to hear you ask? Well, many, many years ago there was TacRPG - a Tactical RPG-based variant of SWM, then came SWM:CE (Campaign Edition) which I found and then tidied up and modified. (You see, I will SWM till I die, and when I first discovered the game, my first thought was I'm gonna RPG this somehow!) Then, a few years ago, in an attempt to make it work swish, I started on SWAG - Star Wars Adventure Gaming. I created a framework for it and had some pretty good rules for it, but it was clunky. I then revised it as a 2.0... better, but still clunky in places. Then. End of last year till now, I started working on SWAG3.0 (now, SWAG3.1) which is, if I say so myself, freakin' awesome.

I will, sometime over the next few days, I'm gonna post as much of it as I can. It's nowhere near as pretty as SWM:CE or even the ruleset I wrote up for SWAG1.0, but it runs pretty well. I'll explain more in other posts soon.

Anyhoo - that's the story of SWM in NZ. We've got plans now to do some more stuff, although I think the season of ultra-competitive SWM has perhaps done its dash. We've still got a good number of players though and we're gonna keep rolling d20s until we collapse!

Kia Kaha, Kia Maru!
kez
Mando
Posted: Friday, March 26, 2021 11:35:33 AM
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Joined: 10/14/2008
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Location: Chokio, MN
Thanks for your work in creating SWAG! it does look amazing and that was a lot of effort you went through to make that. I got a lot of respect for people who design stuff! i've been working on a star wars board game for the last couple of years but i haven't been able to spend the spare time to get it done yet (been also writing a book to for the first time....not easy!), so i applaud you that you can focus on stuff so efficiently to accomplish things. hope to see more of the NZ gamers on vassal again. Darth O has been popping his head into the tournaments and representing NZ quite well (he made finals in NU tournament....that is awesome!)
kezzamachine
Posted: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:00:11 PM
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Location: Lower the Hutt, New Zealand
Go Darth Oli!
thereisnotry
Posted: Friday, March 26, 2021 1:18:13 PM
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I'm interested in trying out SWAG 3.1. Where can I download it?
theultrastar
Posted: Friday, March 26, 2021 5:51:57 PM
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Can't wait to try out SWAG!
Mando
Posted: Friday, March 26, 2021 6:55:32 PM
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Joined: 10/14/2008
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Location: Chokio, MN
thereisnotry wrote:
I'm interested in trying out SWAG 3.1. Where can I download it?


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